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A Model Detective
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Felicia Bownoth
Home: Jamaica
Age: 21
Height: 5’ 2"
Weight: 110 lbs
Stats: 32-25-34
Felicia has been modeling just a short
while now, just barely a year, doing
promo for print and a clothing line, as
well as some car show work.
Modeling was something she just fell
into, Felicia realizes that this is just
going to be a part-time job.
“It is not my major focus,” she said.
“It is something I fell into by chance,
just from people saying, ‘You’re cute,
you should try it.’”
While not in front of the camera Felicia
is getting her Masters degree from John
Jay College of Criminal Justice. Se
already has a bachelor’s in forensic
psychology and sees a bright future once
her research work is done.
“I could basically do anything in the
legal field having to with psychology,”
she said.
Don’t expect Felicia to be the FBI’s
next Clarice Starling, though – chasing
down serial killers isn’t on her to-do
list.
“Right now my options are changing,” she
said.
Felicia was born and raised in Queens,
growing up in Astoria and later moving
to Richmond Hill. A graduate of Cardozo
High School, she spends a lot of time
hanging out with family.
“I spend a lot of time with my sister
Melanie [who is 16], we go to Broadway
shows, to museums and out shopping,”
Felicia said. She also gets a lot of
encouragement in her career from her
boyfriend, Brian, who she has been best
friends with since high school. “He’s
super supportive,” she said.
Felicia likes going out to eat after a
long day in the city, and as a proud
vegetarian knows where to find the best
meat-free restaurants.
“This was a personal choice because I
believe in animal rights,” she said. “I
don’t think it’s fair to take another
living creature’s life just to eat it.”
Besides, she’d never be able to explain
it to her cat AJ.
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Trump on
Tour
It seems that uber-mogul
Donald Trump is at
it again.
The Jamaica-Estates
born real-estate
royal recently found
himself standing
Armani-to-kilt with
a Scottish farmer
who refused to sell
Trump his prized lot
so he can turn it
into a golf course.
And Trump toured the
talk circuit last
week trumpeting his
latest tome, “Think
BIG and Kick Ass in
Business and Life.”
Never one to hold
his tongue, the
Donald yapped about
everything from the
war in Iraq to the
alarmingly (to him,
at least) diminutive
stature of George
Clooney.
We smell another
best-seller from the
King from Queens.
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Shea Record
Holder?
For most of us the
commute to work could be
long, monotonous and an
overall pain in the
you-know-what. But that
is not the case for
Bobby Lee.
Four years ago the
retired firefighter and
his family moved to Oak
Grove Missouri, but Lee
was not willing to give
up his side job as a
vendor selling cotton
candy at Shea Stadium.
Lee, 48, has been a
vendor at the stadium
since he was 16 and
lived two subway stops
away.
His commute now includes
an early drive to the
airport a two hour plane
journey and a drive from
the airport to the
ballpark. So, maybe he
stays for a couple of
games. He does make it
to approximately 60
contests a season.
I wonder how many
frequent flier miles
he’s logged.
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30 Rock & Queens
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Alec Baldwin and
Jerry Seinfeld
on "30 Rock"
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Last year, the Emmy
Award winning “30 Rock”
impressed audiences with
guest appearances from
Italian actress Isabella
Rossellini and British
actress Emily Mortimer.
This year, NBC seems to
be keeping it more
in-house.
Anyone who watched the
season premiere of the
Emmy award winning show
“30 Rock,” saw Jerry
Seinfeld guest starring
as himself. And later
this season, former
“Friends” star David
Schwimmer will appear as
an out-of-work actor
turned mascot.
Both Seinfeld and
Schwimmer have roots in
Queens; Seinfeld
attended Queens College
and Schwimmer was born
in Astoria.
Given that the show
tapes at Long Island
City’s Silvercup
Studios, these guest
stars will not only
enjoy a return to their
home network but to
their Queens home.
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My Girl’
Flushing Fete
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Anna Chlumsky
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Anna Chlumsky, who made
a splash in the hit film
‘My Girl” in 1991, has
kept to her acting, even
taking part in an
Astoria production three
years ago.
But acting isn’t her
only love, and this
little girl has grown up
to fall in love with
Shaun So, an Army
Reservist currently
serving in Afghanistan,
who is of Chinese
descent.
Planning the wedding is
giving the couple, who
resides in Brooklyn, the
best of both worlds.
Anna, who is Catholic,
told Conde Nast Traveler
that the ceremony would
be in her home church in
Brooklyn, but the
reception would be in a
Chinese restaurant in
the neighboring borough.
“Flushing is the place
to go for good Chinese,”
she said, and the couple
should know – both of
their fathers are chefs.
Mazel tov.
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Pats’ Gal
Who would have guessed
she was a football fan?
During October’s
National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month,
Flushing-born Fran
Drescher, a breast
cancer survivor, has
been broadcast at NFL
football stadiums
promoting early
detection of breast
cancer.
Surprisingly, the Queens
native, though she hails
from Jets country, is
actually a New England
Patriots fan, according
to an interview she gave
to NFL.com.
She also said that she'd
liuke to play nanny to
Patriots quarterback Tom
Brady.
Cue nasal laugh.
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GTA IV
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A graphic from
Grand Theft Auto
4. Look
familiar?
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Queens gamers might gain
some knowledge of their
home borough playing the
highly anticipated Grand
Theft Auto IV set to
come out early next
year.
Rockstar Games revealed
Liberty City’s high
definition graphics
during a press
conference this month,
which, with out a doubt,
is meant to clone New
Jack City.
They changed the names
of the boroughs, Queens
is Duke, Manhattan is
Algonquin, Brooklyn is
Broker and the Bronx is
marked off the map in
favor of Dirty Jersey,
which has been renamed
Alderney.
The story is set around
NikoBellic, a Russian
immigrant with a
crime-ridden past as he
searches for “The
American Dream.” Sound
familiar?
Oh, supervise the kids.
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